Jimmy Lenman
  • Home
  • Contact
  • Talks
  • Writings
  • 翻译
  • Links: My Stuff
  • Links: Other Stuff
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Ramblings
    • Tops
    • Places
  • Stravaiging

114. Snowdon, Moel Cynghorion, Foel Goch, Foel Gron, Moel Elio. 6th September, 2016

9/22/2016

1 Comment

 
Picture
The plan was to climb Snowdon and then head down to Llanberis by the Meol Elio ridge. But I didn’t want to climb up by the rather tedious Llanberis path. So I parked in Llanberis and jumped on a bus to the car park at Pen y Pas. Facing the hill here the Miners’ Track is the one on the left, the Pyg Track the one on the right. The Pyg was for me today. It’s really a delightful way up, straightfoward enough but with just enough clambering around – it can hardly be called scrambling – to keep it fun. Some guidebooks characterise the zigzags at the top as some kind of purgatorial horror but I couldn’t for the life of me see why. I got to the top in thick cloud for the third time in a row. I don’t object to having a café on top of a mountain but it would be nice if it was a nicer café. I was hungry enough to eat one of their not very delicious pies.


Picture
I wanted the Snowdon Ranger path down which was easy enough to find, everything here being rather well signposted. You just turn left and cross the railway just after the trun off back to Minerts’/Pyg at the top of the zigzags. You go down Snowdon Ranger until Llyn Ffynnon -y– gwas appears on your left and the ridge of Moel Cynghorion looms up on your right. To get to this point you seem to descend an alarming long way but of course you are going from a 1085m summit to a 674m summit which is a long way down and the climb back up to Moel Cynghorion is not so very long. From here it’s just a matter of following a path along a lovely up and down easy ridge all the way to the top of Moel Elio with its huge wind shelter. From here I followed the NE ridge down. There’s a bit of a path and stiles where they’re needed. Eventually, after a short section where my path rather gave up on me, I got to a road which I followed, for still a fair old distance, back to Llanberis. The burgers in Pete’s Eats are nice.

1 Comment
Centennial Dishwasher Repair link
9/25/2022 02:59:57 am

Great post thankkyou

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Jimmy Lenman

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    February 2023
    July 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    October 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    March 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    August 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014

    Categories

    All

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.